[EL] ELB News and Commentary 12/22/17

[Rick Hasen]

“Roy Moore still won’t concede the Alabama Senate race. And those write-in votes? Mickey Mouse got a few”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96571>
Posted on December 22, 2017 3:45 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96571> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LA Times:<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-alabama-senate-race-20171222-story.html>
On Friday, all of Alabama’s 67 counties were required to officially file their election results to the secretary of state’s office. In a statement, Secretary of State John H. Merrill said his office plans to officially certify the election on Dec. 28.
Also Friday, some of the names left on thousands of write-in ballots began to emerge. Some names are surprising. Who knew SpongeBob SquarePants had a constituency?…
In several counties, Mickey Mouse and SpongeBob SquarePants appeared on ballots. Phil Robertson, star of the television series “Duck Dynasty,” received votes in at least 10 counties. Another popular choice was simply the word “anybody.”
But the candidates to receive the most write-ins were mostly seasoned politicians and public figures.
Sen. Luther Strange, who lost to Moore in the Republican primary, netted 5,822 write-in votes, according to AL.com. Lee Busby, a retired Marine who launched his write-in campaign as Moore’s sexual misconduct allegations emerged, raked in nearly 3,600 votes.
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“March Fong Eu, pioneering Asian American politician who was longtime California secretary of state, dies at 95”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96568>
Posted on December 22, 2017 3:42 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96568> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
LA Times obituary<http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-march-fong-eu-20171222-story.html>.
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My Academic Articles 2015<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96565>
Posted on December 22, 2017 2:11 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96565> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Moving these off the sidebar as well:
Racial Gerrymandering’s Questionable Revival<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2601459>, 67 Alabama Law Review 365 (2015) <="" a="">)
When is Uniformity of People, Not Counties, Appropriate in Election Administration? The Cases of Early and Sunday Voting”<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2497192>, 2015 University of Chicago Legal Forum 193 (2015)
Democracy for GrownUps<http://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/law/democracy-for-grownups>, New Rambler, Nov. 9, 2015
Why Isn’t Congress More Corrupt? A Preliminary Inquiry<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2585260>, 84 Fordham Law Review 429 (2015)
Response: Conscious Congressional Overriding of the Supreme Court, Gridlock, and Partisan Politics<http://www.texaslrev.com/conscious-congressional-overriding-of-the-supreme-court-gridlock-and-partisan-politics/>, 93 Texas Law Review See Also 263 (2015) (with Jim Buatti)
Articles 2004-2007<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26841>
Articles 2007-2010<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51743>

Articles from 2011-2012<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69205>
Articles from 2013-2014<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78535>
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My Opeds and Commentaries, 2015-2016<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96562>
Posted on December 22, 2017 2:05 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96562> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Moving these off the sidebar as I spruce things up around here:
Donald’s Trumped Up Nevada Lawsuit Is a Fitting End to a Hateful Campaign<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/08/donald_s_trumped_up_nevada_lawsuit_is_a_fitting_end_to_a_hateful_campaign.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top>, Slate, November 8, 2016
What an Election Expert Worries About on Election Day<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-election-day-worries-20161108-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, November 8, 2016
A supremely important choice: The court hangs in the balance, for Democrats, too<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/rick-hasen-supremely-important-choice-article-1.2858853>, New York Daily News, November 7, 2016
Not Intimidated: A court has gotten the Trump campaign on the record promising not to intimidate voters on Election Day. That is huge<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/11/trump_campaign_promises_not_to_intimidate_voters_on_election_day_that_s.html>, Slate, November 3, 2016
Trumped-Up Fears of ‘Rigged’ Elections–and How Responses Could Disenfranchise Voters<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/10/18/trumped-up-fears-of-rigged-elections-and-how-responses-could-disenfranchise-voters/>, Wall Street Journal Washington Wire, October 18, 2016
Hurricane Matthew Could Have Devastating Consequences for the Election<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/06/hurricane_matthew_could_have_devastating_consequences_for_the_election.html>, Slate, October 6, 2016
Voting for Change: The Supreme Court’s Election Law Cases After Scalia<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/hasen-voting-for-change.pdf>, OC Lawyer, October 2016
Kids, Be Careful Who You Vote For<http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/09/20/millennials-third-party-clinton-trump-be-careful-rick-hasen/90710934/>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 2016
Even Trump and Clinton Need Big-Money Donors<http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/08/24/even-trump-and-clinton-need-big-money-donors-column/89229902/>, USA Today, August 24, 2016
If You’re Worried About Rigged Elections, Look at Trump’s Tactics First<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-vote-rigging-20160816-snap-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2016
Republicans Are Not Attacking Democracy<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/gop-voting-rights/494816/>, The Atlantic, August 8, 2016
What If Trump Drops Out?<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-trump-drop-out-20160804-snap-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2016
Turning the Tide on Voting Rights<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/opinion/campaign-stops/turning-the-tide-on-voting-rights.html?ref=opinion&_r=1>, New York Times, August 2, 2016
The Voting Rights Act May Get Some Teeth Back<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/07/the_5th_circuit_left_an_opening_for_texas_to_lose_control_of_its_discriminatory.html?wpsrc=sh_all_mob_tw_top>, Slate, July 21, 2016
The Real Reason Why Judges Should Keep Quiet About Elections<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/07/ruth_bader_ginsburg_s_trump_remarks_will_have_long_lasting_effects.html>, Slate, July 19, 2016 (with Dahlia Lithwick)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Slam of Trump Does the Nation No Favors<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-trump-ginsburg-commentary-idUSKCN0ZT2IM>, Reuters Opinion, July 13, 2016
Could Lack of Money Be Trump’s Downfall?<http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/opinions/trump-funding-richard-hasen/index.html>, CNN Opinion, June 21, 2016
Campaign-Finance Law, the State of Nature, and the Nirvana Fallacy<http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/campaign-finance-law-the-state-of-nature-and-the-nirvana-fallacy/>, Library of Law and Liberty, June 7, 2016
Will Democrats Try to Beat Trump by Discouraging Conservative Voters?<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/will-democrats-try-to-beat-trump-by-discouraging-conservative-voters>, Talking Points Memo, May 23, 2016
Bob McDonnell Ruling Will Not Legalize Corruption<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202757547658/With-Bob-McDonnell-Appeal-SCOTUS-Can-Clarify-Line-Between-Politics-and-Crime?cmp=share_twitter&slreturn=20160508194101>, National Law Journal, May 12, 2016
The Supreme Court’s Next Big Fight Over Money in Politics<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/supreme-court-soft-money/480978/>, The Atlantic, May 7, 2016
Sanders Calls Clinton’s Fundraising ‘Obscene,’ But It is More Nuanced—Influence Isn’t Corruption<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0425-hasen-money-in-politics-20160425-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2016
Campaign Finance’s Creeping Deregulation<http://www.regblog.org/2016/04/20/hasen-campaign-finances-creeping-deregulation/>, RegBlog, April 20, 2016
Is Trump Right About ‘Rigged” Election?<http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/opinions/is-trump-right-about-rigged-process-hasen/index.html>, CNN Opinion, April 15, 2016
Corporations May Be Progressive, But That Still Doesn’t Make Them People<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/04/05/corporations-may-be-progressive-but-that-still-doesnt-make-them-people/>, Reuters Opinion, April 6, 2016
Garland is No Sure Bet on Overturning Citizens United<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/hasen-garland-citizens.pdf>, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 21, 2016
The Hard Power of ‘Soft’ Voter-ID Laws<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-hard-power-of-soft-voter-id-laws/473595/>, The Atlantic, March 14, 2016
Appoint a Few More Scalias, Kiss Democracy Goodbye<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/02/21/appoint-another-scalia-kiss-democracy-goodbye/>, Reuters Opinion, February 22, 2016
The Battle Over Replacing Justice Scalia is Just the Start of a War Over the Supreme Court<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/15/the-battle-over-replacing-justice-scalia-is-just-the-start-of-a-war-over-the-supreme-court/>, Washington Post, WonkBlog, February 15, 2016
How Scalia’s Death Could Shake Up Campaign Finance; It might be the opening reformers have been waiting for<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/antonin-scalia-death-campaign-finance-reform-213633>, Politico, February 14, 2016
Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS manages to make it even harder to find the dark money in U.S. politic<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-green-light-for-more-dark-money-20160212-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2016
Loosening money’s grip on elections: How to change the billionaire-dominated campaign finance landscape, 40 years after Buckley vs. Valeo<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/rick-hasen-loosening-money-grip-elections-article-1.2513936?cid=bitly>, NY Daily News, January 30, 2016
Radically Revise Campaign Laws to Give People, Not Billionaires, a Voice<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/01/26/could-michael-bloomberg-and-his-millions-save-us-from-ourselves/radically-revise-campaign-laws-to-give-people-not-billionaires-a-voice>, New York Times Room for Debate, January 26, 2016
Ted Cruz is Fit for Office, at Least Under the Constitution<https://t.co/Vn1qVlUt2V>, National Law Journal, January 25 2016
Money Can’t Buy Jeb Bush the White House, But It Still Skews Politics<http://wapo.st/1KfwFqh>, Washington Post, January 14, 2016
How to End American Plutocracy<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/rick-hasen-american-plutocracy-article-1.2492787>, NY Daily News, Jan. 12, 2016
Do We Need a Constitutional Convention on Campaign Finance?<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0106-hasen-constitutional-convention-campaign-finance-20160106-story.html>, LA Times, Jan. 5, 2016
Bush v. Gore in 2000: Partisans still in charge<https://t.co/JcYNBpeDbz>, Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 11, 2015
Justices will get no satisfaction with a new ‘one person, one vote’ rule<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1210-hasen-evenwel-voting-district-20151208-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 8, 2015
Justice Kennedy Heed Justice Kennedy: Money Buys Influence<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202741224028/OPED--Justice-Kennedy-Heed-Justice-Kennedy-Money-Buys-Influence?cmp=share_twitter&slreturn=20151013104748>, National Law Journal, Oct. 30, 2015
When it comes to election law, red America and blue America are not at all alike<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1020-hasen-red-blue-election-law-20151020-story.html>, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 2015
Why The Most Urgent Civil Rights Cause Of Our Time Is The Supreme Court Itself<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-greatest-civil-rights-cause>, Talking Points Memo, Sept. 28, 2015
Supreme Court Heads Back into the Political Thicket<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/hasen-oc-lawyer.pdf>, Orange County Lawyer, Sept. 2015
Texas Two-Steps All Over Voting Rights; It says it can make voting as difficult as it wants to, and any law that says otherwise is unconstitutional<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/09/voting_rights_act_sections_2_and_5_texas_defends_voter_id_laws.html>, Slate, Sept. 2, 2015
Why the Selfie is a Threat to Democracy<http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/08/17/why-the-selfie-is-a-threat-to-democracy/>, Reuters Opinion, Aug. 18, 2015
The McCain-Feingold Law May Doom Itself<http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202734808860/OpEd-The-McCainFeingold-Act-May-Doom-Itself?cmp=share_twitter>, National Law Journal, Aug. 16, 2015
Congress Has the Power to Improve Elections<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/08/05/ensuring-voting-rights-in-the-21st-century/congress-has-the-power-to-improve-elections>, NY Times Room for Debate, Aug. 5, 2015
How to Save the Voting Rights Act<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/08/how_to_save_the_voting_rights_act_voting_rights_shouldn_t_rely_on_parsing.html>, Slate, Aug. 4, 2015
The Voting Rights Act at a Crossroads<http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/08/the-voting-rights-act-at-a-crossroads/>, National Constitution Center Constitution Daily, Aug. 4, 2015
This is Why the Voting Rights Act is on Trial in North Carolina<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/07/31/this-is-why-the-voting-rights-act-is-on-trial-in-north-carolina/?postshare=1781438352128737>, Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, Jul. 31, 2015
Ideology, Partisanship, and the New One Person, One Vote Case<http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/07/symposium-ideology-partisanship-and-the-new-one-person-one-vote-case/>, SCOTUSBlog, Jul. 31, 2015
A Court of One: Anthony Kennedy<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0702-hasen-kennedy-court-20150630-story.html>, LA Times, Jun. 30, 2015
Is Hillary Clinton Dooming Real Election Reform?<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/hillary_clinton_is_politicizing_voting_rights_the_democratic_frontrunner.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top>, Slate, Jun. 8, 2015
Only Voters Count? Conservatives ask the Supreme Court to restrict states’ rights and overturn precedent<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/evenwel_v_abbott_supreme_court_case_state_districts_count_voters_or_total.html>, Slate, May 26, 2015
From Supreme Court, a mixed blessing on campaign finance limits<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-judicial-fundraising-20150430-story.html>, L.A. Times, Apr. 30, 2015
Jeb the Destroyer: Jeb Bush is tearing down what little campaign finance law we have left<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/jeb_bush_destroying_campaign_finance_rules_his_tactics_will_be_the_future.html>, Slate, Apr. 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s Bad Campaign Finance Ideas; She’s right that money in politics is a problem. But suggesting a constitutional amendment is foolish<http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/04/hillary_clinton_and_campaign_finance_the_democratic_front_runner_s_suggestion.html?wp_login_redirect=0>, Slate, Apr. 16, 2015
Why ‘Selma is Now’<http://billmoyers.com/2015/03/05/mean-selma-now/>, Moyers and Co., Mar. 5, 2015
Read more opeds<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=26830> from 2006-2009, these from 2010-2011<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=51741>, these from 2012-2013<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=69191>, and these from 2014<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=78532>.
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“Law and Disorder in North Carolina”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96560>
Posted on December 22, 2017 12:56 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96560> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Barry Yeoman<http://prospect.org/article/law-and-disorder-north-carolina> for TAP:
This fall, in a dispute over gerrymandering, federal judges stripped North Carolina lawmakers<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article182191291.html> of the power to draw their own state district lines. The decision was just the latest setback for the state’s Republican legislative leaders: Federal courts have overturned restrictions on abortion<http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/state/nccapitol/2014/12/22/14301098/12_22_14_Opinion.pdf> and same-sex marriage<http://www.wral.com/federal-judge-strikes-down-nc-s-same-sex-marriage-ban/14066669/>, and in 2016, halted a voting-law overhaul that, judges said, targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/nc-4th.pdf>.” State judges, who are elected, have also restrained legislators: Last year, North Carolina’s Supreme Court overturned a law canceling tenure<http://www.wral.com/supreme-court-upholds-tenure-rights-for-veteran-teachers/15644048/> for veteran schoolteachers.
Now state lawmakers are striking back with an all-guns-blazing strategy that could serve as a national template for neutralizing the courts.
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Posted in The Voting Wars<http://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>


Trump DOJ Sides with Texas Again in Voter ID Case, Opposing Plaintiffs’ Motion to Lift Stay in Case<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96556>
Posted on December 22, 2017 12:52 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96556> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
DOJ filing:<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/us-oppo-texas-stay.pdf>
The United States opposes private plaintiffs-appellees’ motion to lift the stay pending appeal that the motions panel entered on September 5, 2017. The parties’ merits briefs and oral argument before this Court only reinforce the strong likelihood that Texas will succeed in showing that the district court legally erred and abused its discretion in permanently enjoining Senate Bill 5 (S.B. 5), the State’s amended photo ID law. The balance of equities and the public interest also strongly favor leaving the stay in place. Accordingly, this Court should deny the motion.
The U.S. is still nominally a plaintiff in these cases, but it is functioning as a friend of Texas in supporting its appeal.
Texas’s opposition to lifting the stay is here<http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/texas-oppo-stay.pdf>.
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“Judging Law in Election Cases”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96554>
Posted on December 22, 2017 12:33 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96554> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Michael Kang and Joanna Shepherd have posted this draft <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3085289> on SSRN (forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review). Here is the abstract:
How much does law matter in election cases where the partisan stakes are high? At first glance, election cases may seem the worst context for studying the influence of law on judicial decisionmaking. Election cases, which typically decide the applicable rules for a given election, often determine election outcomes and therefore feature high political stakes in the balance. But we argue that election cases offer a unique opportunity to study the role of law in judicial decisionmaking precisely because we can assume partisanship influences judges in these cases.
If judges prefer to decide election cases consistent with their partisan interests, then they may decide these cases contrary to partisan interests mainly when the out-party litigant’s case has strengths sufficient to overcome this usual, countervailing influence of partisan loyalty. For this reason, we use lower court judges’ decisions contrary to their partisan interests as a proxy for underlying case strength. We find that our measure of case strength is predictive of state supreme court decisionmaking in these election cases on appeal. State supreme court justices from both parties are most likely to affirm when case strength is indicated by our measure. This is particularly true when case strength aligns with a justice’s partisan interests such that both law and partisanship direct the same result on appeal, but even when case strength conflicted with a supreme court justice’s partisan loyalty, case strength won out most of the time. Our other results suggest that where case strength could not be inferred by the lower court disposition, partisanship generally predicted quite a bit, with interesting complications that we explore.
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“New hope, new problem: Will Federal Election Commission shut down?”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96552>
Posted on December 21, 2017 3:55 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96552> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
CPI piece<https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/12/20/21410/new-hope-new-problem-will-federal-election-commission-shut-down>, with the subhead: “Agency could lose quorum just as liberals, conservatives find sliver of common ground”
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“17 Things We Learned about Money in Politics in 2017”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96550>
Posted on December 21, 2017 3:21 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96550> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs.<https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/17-things-we-learned-about-money-politics-2017>
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“Federal Court Dismisses Case Claiming That Trump’s Ongoing Business Interests Violate The Constitution”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96548>
Posted on December 21, 2017 3:11 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96548> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Chris Geidner:<https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-court-dismisses-case-claiming-that-trumps-ongoing?utm_term=.kfGOOjZ3P#.kib664RyE>
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit brought by one of the organizations claiming that President Trump’s continued ownership of his businesses create conflicts of interest that violate the Constitution.
The judge, US District Judge George B. Daniels, also ruled that it is up to Congress to decide whether there are any valid concerns raised by foreign governments doing business with Trump’s businesses and, if so, what to do about those concerns.
The lawsuit was brought<https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/top-legal-ethics-scholars-to-file-first-major-lawsuit-agains?utm_term=.nhxmde0MD#.uiz01r6bg> in New York by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in the first weekend of the Trump administration. Since then, a restaurant employees association and other hospitality industry-related individuals joined the lawsuit.
In the 29-page decision<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335155-CREW-v-Trump-Decision.html>, however, Daniels dismissed their case — which alleged that Trump’s continued interests in his businesses are leading to violations of the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses — ruled that they lack standing to bring the lawsuit.
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“Governor Cuomo Proposes More Disclosure for Online Political Ads in New York”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96546>
Posted on December 21, 2017 3:06 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96546> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/politics/governor-cuomo-internet-ads.html>
Following a federal push for more disclosure, and amid investigations into Russian meddling into American elections, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is proposing legislation to close legal loopholes in New York regarding political ads on the internet, with the goal of pressuring companies like Facebook to root out foreign-based interlopers in online campaigns.
The proposal, announced on Thursday and due to be introduced to the Legislature early next year, closely hews to a federal bill<https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=the-honest-ads-act> introduced in October by a pair of Democratic senators — Mark Warner of Virginia and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota — and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona. That bill, the Honest Ads Act<https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1989/text>, would require internet companies to reveal who is paying for political advertising on their sites by amending federal election law, which dates to the early 1970s, to include “paid internet or paid digital communication.” Print, radio and television are already subject to such regulations.
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“Virginia is proof that every vote counts”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96544>
Posted on December 21, 2017 3:04 pm<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=96544> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>
Josh Douglas CNN oped.<http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/opinions/virginia-house-of-delegates-opinion-douglas/index.html>
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